Creep out the Coworkers

So my place of employment is having their annual Halloween party tomorrow, and this year they're being cheap breaking with tradition and having a potluck (they'll provide some 'appetizers'. You know how these food contests can go) There's a prize for the scariest food.

I was thinking of doing this chocolate banana bread that I have never tried, but it's not very scary, just probably brown. Maybe I should get more ambitious. You all have any good ideas?

From some quick googling, my favorites:

Crawly Cakes from NotMartha. These are awesome but maybe more work than I am willing to do.

These Hairy Daddy Longlegs cupcakes are similar but look like less work (and don't involve twinkies, always a plus).

I think these are my favorite so far: Monster Toes. Awesome! But, cocktail sausages? Ewwww. Also, the vegetarians will be unhappy.

These vampire cupcakes that K mentioned to me were what got me started. Might be a winner.

Other Halloween food awesomeness:

• Awesome monster cupcakes! These look like so much fun. I'd probably eat all the candy, though. Love the tentacled one.


• Awful Edible Fleshworms


• Brain Cupcakes 1 & 2 (2 uses red velvet cake for full effect.)


• Popcorn hands. I think the really cool thing to do here would be to use candy popcorn (the recipe used to make popcorn balls), so you could take off the gloves and have popcorn-shaped hands.


• Ghost Cupcakes (scroll down halfway)

Man, I feel so uncreative. Tentacles out of Laffy Taffy, now THAT is the mother of invention.